Music and Plants

Just curious what thoughts you all may have on the effect playing music may have on your plants.

I have read what articles I could online and found the studies Dorothy Retallack conducted along with a couple of others, and I've also read The Secret Life of Plants.

From what I see, the consensus seems to be that heavy rock and rap is unlikeable for plants; that they are neutral to silence and country music; that they appreciate strings, classical music, and world music like Indian sitar music (like Ravi Shankar); that they dislike percussion; that they respond well to a couple of hours of music per day but you get the opposite results if you play music all day long.

Although, plants don't have ears, they have certainly been shown to respond to different frequencies, but I have not done any formal experiments on my own.

I'm just wondering if any of you have had any personal experience with this and care to share?

Sounds to me like you've done your home work. The only thing additional I found was a study with soy bean. They where able to active select hormones at times that the hormone would not normally be active. They did this with specific tones. I'm sorry I did not save the link. It was interesting information, however, I did not find it relevant at this point.
What you stated seem to be all that was relevant in what I found. I've thought about doing it my self but haven't yet.

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PapayaTwins said:

Just curious what thoughts you all may have on the effect playing music may have on your plants.

I have read what articles I could online and found the studies Dorothy Retallack conducted along with a couple of others, and I've also read The Secret Life of Plants.

From what I see, the consensus seems to be that heavy rock and rap is unlikeable for plants; that they are neutral to silence and country music; that they appreciate strings, classical music, and world music like Indian sitar music (like Ravi Shankar); that they dislike percussion; that they respond well to a couple of hours of music per day but you get the opposite results if you play music all day long.

Although, plants don't have ears, they have certainly been shown to respond to different frequencies, but I have not done any formal experiments on my own.

I'm just wondering if any of you have had any personal experience with this and care to share?

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I know it works

I play 3 hours of classical everyday for my girls..

Dont give em too much more than this.

Ive read that too much Classical is bad for them.. And me

i play some Hank Williams the third

If you really want some "Organic" music for your plants, you can't go wrong with anything from the The Doors featuring Ray Manzarak (on keyboards). "Light My Fire" and "20th Century Fox" immediatly come to mind, oh yeah - and "The Alabama Song". May James Douglas Morrison R.I.P. (No One Gets Out Alive!).

Of course, the All-Time Classic of "Organic" music would have to be "Inna Godda Da Vida" by none other than The Iron Butterfly!

LOL - I can just see all you "Old Farts" out there, Bouncing your heads up and down, and tapping your feet!

Sounds like all positive feedback. I'll keep doing it then!

For the last few weeks, I've been playing:
"Heart Sutra" the Sanskrit version when I wake them up in the morning (it's a nice way for me to wake up too). I found it on youtube.
When I water them I play rainforest sounds (with no music in the background, just sounds of water and birds and such) or "Rain Song" by Enigma & Deep Forest.
I've played "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley and "Pink Panther" for them too, just to give them a little bit of soul.
As far as classical goes, I've heard that both plants and people in the healing process respond well to Chopin. What composers might you all recommend? My selection of classical music is not quite as full as some of the other genres.
Anyone ever try chanting or meditation music? Reggae? I'm hesitant with reggae because of all the percussion.

Oh, and my most pressing one: the harmonica. Do you think playing the high notes on harmonica would be good for them? There is a lot of vibration in harmonica music, so I thought maybe it would be really effective. I haven't tried it yet because I'm still learning how to play and I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate dischordant music

I'm looking back on my notes from last season's grow and I'm noticing a different pace this time. Although, they are all different strains from before

PapayaTwins said:

Just curious what thoughts you all may have on the effect playing music may have on your plants.

I have read what articles I could online and found the studies Dorothy Retallack conducted along with a couple of others, and I've also read The Secret Life of Plants.

From what I see, the consensus seems to be that heavy rock and rap is unlikeable for plants; that they are neutral to silence and country music; that they appreciate strings, classical music, and world music like Indian sitar music (like Ravi Shankar); that they dislike percussion; that they respond well to a couple of hours of music per day but you get the opposite results if you play music all day long.

Although, plants don't have ears, they have certainly been shown to respond to different frequencies, but I have not done any formal experiments on my own.

I'm just wondering if any of you have had any personal experience with this and care to share?

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Interesting thread. I play music once in a while when I'm working in the garden, but certainly not everyday.

There is a lot of ambient noise produced by my extractor fan...I wonder what effect that noise could have on the plants? I'm betting it isn't much.

ReefersMcNasty said:

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That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. What a scam!

i like to play music for my plants, usually reggae, bob marley peter tosh buju banton to name a few

i also like to give my plants complements and tell them how beautiful they look. i also sing to them when the mood strikes me. im a terrible singer but the plants dont seem to mind

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are able to stimulate plants metabolisms on a cellular level which allows the
plants to take in more nutrients via Foliar application. That was a paraphrase.....
There is much more to it, I just can't type it all

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KaleoXxX said:

i also like to give my plants complements and tell them how beautiful they look. i also sing to them when the mood strikes me. im a terrible singer but the plants dont seem to mind

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I also like to tell them that they're beautiful, smell good, I'm proud of them, etc. And I figure, that affection and reassurance can only help them grow. Why not?

Anyone out there play the harmonica for their girls?

Its kind of boring wen he gets into wheat grass but it makes sense.
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On a similar note...Dr. Emoto has found that water responds to sound and words. Ex. A water sample that is played classical music and frozen produces beautiful crystals. While a different sample played heavy metal and frozen produces 'jacked up' malformed crystals. Messages from water is the name of one of his books I believe. Pretty fascinating stuff. Thinking of 'conditioning' my water.

Would trance be a good genre to play for my girls? I listen to Tiesto's Club Life podcast every week (as well as a state of trance) and I have a huge collection of trance. I could understand why they would NOT like it since they don't like hip hop, but at the same time trance has such a wide variety of tones and noises I could see it also helping quite a bit. If anyone has any idea please let me know

Personally i play real bass driven stuff for my girls not lie rap and stuff jsut bass filled songs, along with alot of blues and jazz

My Girls seem to like anything with heavy Bass in it, even Hardcore Metal like Fear Factory or In Flames. I don't think they can really differentiate between different sounds though. They seem to only be responding to the vibrations from the bass, as you can see them "perk up" quite a bit after about 15mins of the bass vibrating them.

davesnothere872 said:

My Girls seem to like anything with heavy Bass in it, even Hardcore Metal like Fear Factory or In Flames. I don't think they can really differentiate between different sounds though. They seem to only be responding to the vibrations from the bass, as you can see them "perk up" quite a bit after about 15mins of the bass vibrating them.

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same thing that happens to me